Grateful Dead

I never thought of that and I don't know. I always used to mail order, but it's been 20 years and I don't remember how long it took to find out!!! I do know this. For mail order, be sure to follow the instructions they list for mail order EXACTLY. You don't want to use the wrong envelope size, or forget key information on the index card, etc.

Thanks for explaining that, in the past I have had mailorder tix, but was never the one sending in, and never knew how it all went down...And now that you put it like that, I'm sure the VIP thing WILL be astronomical. How long do you estimate it might take to find out if you got the mailorder or not? Is it possible you might know before online goes on sale?

Yeah, the VIP thing is weird, not that I would spend for that, but they're not announcing the VIP deals pricing until 2 days after mail order, so if you were considering spending $200 for best possible seats but wanted to see if vip was an option at $300 or so you won't know if it might instead be $1,000 instead and by then it would be too late to mail order and expect good seats. Weird way to set up the timing of ticket sales. Edit - in answer to someone who inquired about best way to get seats. In the past they pretty much divvied up tickets equally between mail order and ticketmaster, so in this case I would expect that they probably divvied up the tickets equally between mail order, Internet, and ticketmaster, so your odds of getting the best seats are probably the same with any of those, just different logistics. With mail order it's more like a lottery between everyone who has a jan 20th post mark, Internet will be first to get through first served, same with ticketmaster.